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A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Partly cloudy, warmer with scattered showers; Monday, warm and humid.
40TH YEAR NO. 40 —-/O PAGES
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1946
PRICE TEN CENTS
More Swords into Plowshares
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'Ex.¦f^\T raid slicllers that once I in Tottenham Borough. England. I council wliich is promotinK prac-
were the refuge for many Eng- These coops were displayed as tical wa.vs for icronversion. The
iishmen now make extra fine part of a "Farm WVek" pxhihi- material normally used for thia
chicken coops and cattle atalls | tion aponsored by the borough | is sent into home construction.
Po/fo Cases Pass Record '44 High; Parents Warned
Chicago, Aug. 3 (UP)—Physicians •nd health authorities today urged parents to take speuiHl precautions to protc.l their children from in¬ fantile paralysis aa the nation's worst poliom.velltis wave in 12 years approached epidemic propor¬ tions in many aeetions of the mid¬ dle west.
The public health aervice at Washington reported that 4.16" ca.ses had been tabulated in the United State* *o far during the cur¬ rent outbreak. This compared with S.OAO cases during the same period of 1944. E«r«<rd l»44 Outbreak
The service said that polio totals atarted reaching serious numbers earlier this year than in 1944.
Parents were warned to keep their children out of crowd* and see that they got plenty of rest. Thev were advised to caution youngsters against taking strenu¬ ous exercise or sudden plungea In¬ to cold water.
SL Paul and Minneapolis, Minn. %vere hardest hit by the crippling disease. The fiister Kenny Foun¬ dation spearheaded the fiKht against polio In the twin cities, where M persons have died and 5ft2 have been stricken. Hospitals Crowded
As an increasing number of
patienta crowded into Twin Cities Hospitals. Minneapolis Health Com¬ missioner T. .1. Hil! urged that all children under l.'i be refu.ied ad¬ mission to theatres. Sunday schools, churchea, youth centers amusement parks and halls until further notice
Throughout Minnesota, an esti¬ mated 620 persons were stricken with polio. Twenty-eight cases were reported al Rochester, home of the Mayo clinic.
Cliicago and other Illinois com- munitie* prepar«)d for epidemics. More than 320 cases have been re¬ ported In Illinois, 104 of thein in I Chicago.
I Chicago's City Health Commls- • sioner Herman N. Bundcsen warn- |ed that If the number of cases con¬ tinued to mount for the next four or flve days, "it will be an epi¬ demic."
Polio wa* on the march In nearly every other midwestern state, but it appeared to be abating In the south.
Ohio reported 158 cases yester¬ day, develand had a record num¬ ber of 78. Ten person* had died in Cleveland.
Oklahoma had 128 cases. Sec¬ tions of 18 town* were »prayed with r>DT.
Truman-Backed Hopeful Is Given SO-SO Chance
Kansaa Ctt.v, Mo., Aug. 3, fUP) — President Truman came home to¬ day to see how the first "purge" attempt by a President since 1938 was making out.
Wholesale resignations of elec¬ tion officials in the contested Fifth congressional district where the President was attempting hi)< purge posed a critical election problem.
The President was scokinR to eliminate Rep. Roger C. Slaughter, Democratic incumbent in the Fifth, but thc Pre.sident won't be ubie to vole in the primary on Tuesdny for his choice in the race. Kno.s A. Axtell, because the President's home, the summer While House, Is In the Fourth distriat.
Interest In the President's home¬ coming was high because of the Slaughter - Axtell . Walsh three- ringer race. .May Force Them to Serve
Inlerest of another kind appear¬ ed high. too. as Ludwick Graves, chairman of the election board, re¬ ported wholesale resignations of veteran pollinR place offlcials in the fare of an almo.st certain onslaught of challenging In the red-hot con¬ test.
"V\> may have to exerciae a right under the statutes to force many of Ihese ofiicials to aerve," Grave's ¦aid.
Ever since the President three]
week* ago entered the Fiflh dis¬ trict fight. It's been a hotbox of politics, with Axtell, 3fi-year-old former naval lieutenant, carrying the color* of the President. Jim Pendergast and the CIO-PAC.
The gamblers along 12th street reportedly were betting even on Axtell. v^'kh the odds up elsewhere to g-.") on Slaughter.
Jerome Walah, third candidate, was quoted at 3-1. Axtell's chances were enhanced because the resur- Kcnt Pendergast organization was goinn all-out not onl.v lo whip .Slaughter but to name both of Jackson county'a congressional nominees. Since the days of the IVndergust-.Shannon rapprochment vears ngo. Ihe Shannonitcs had one, Pendergasl llie olher. Will (irt Machine I^ad
Wilh tlic Pendergasl "boys" get¬ ting out the deliverable vole in the Norlh End iireiincts. tlie money boys wcie figuring Axtell would move out of that area with a siz¬ able lead.
The South Side di.-ttriuls are strongholds of Republicanism and it was tlieie Ihat Slaughter, though a Democrat, appeared tn be «t;ik- ing hia big luipe.s. Pendergast forces were readying a challenge campaign al the polls in an effort to keep GOP voters in their own bailiwick and thus shorten Slaugh¬ ter's chances.
OUTPUT Of AUTOS DELIBERATELY LOW
Accuses Big Three; Asks Sen. Mead To Investigate
Detroit, Aug. 3. (UP)—Walter P. Reuther, president of the CIO United Auto Workers, charged to night that leading auto makers were deliberately foatering a low production volume and called for a Mead Committee Investigation of
j the entire industry.
Reuther's challenge followed a joint labor-management conference sponsored by the union to discuss production problems. Most produ-
jcers refused to attend, with onlv
! Studebajier. Kaiser-Frazer and Wil-
, lys-Overland represented.
I Lile» Tax Kefunda
I The UAW leader hinted that tax
i refunds and monopoly controls wero responsible for "an Incentive to defer production."
The brunt of Reuther'* attack was directed toward the big three — Kord. Chrysler and General Mo¬ tors — who were accused of creat¬ ing a "myth" when they claimed that supplier strikes were the major reason for low automobile output.
Reuther said he had written to Senator Mead aaking for a "thor- ougli and complete investigation of of the reason for the industry's faiiure^to produce." Want I AW to End Strike
Industry spokesmen generally de¬ clined comment on Reuther'a de¬ mand. Their answer to lagging pro¬ duction charges earlier has been a 1 counter-demand that Reuther work Ifor an end of aupplier strikes, manv I of which were called by UAW affii- iate*.
Among the union charges recom¬ mended for committee Investigation were:
I 1. "The posaibility that high auto I prices encourage low volume pro¬ duction since such prices were aet b.v OPA for assuring normal profits while production is far below capa¬ city."
2. "Possible use of the tax law carr.v-back provisions as an in¬ centive to defer production from |194«. when tax refunds may be earned b.v not producing cars, to 1947 when proflts may be collected from customers ¦without sacriflce of tax refunds."
"General Motors. Ford. Chrysler and other producer* refu.sed to al-1 tend our conference because theyj knew public discussion would de-l stroy the mvlh they have attempt¬ ed to create holding suppliers' strikes to hlame for present low output of autos" Reuther declared.
"Their refusal to attend." he add¬ ed, "also arouses auspicion that there are other reasons -over and above material shortages—which they are afraid to submit to public slrutiny."
SS^NEW IRAN FLAREUP hbrMfiOVER BRITISH TROOPS
To Protect Oil Interest At Border
Town Grows Uneasy Over Report of Return; Bloodshed Is Feared; Machine Routed, Chased
Athens, Tenn., Aug. S. (IP)— Violence flared briefly here again tonight as one man waa ahot twice by a roving hand of \1gi- lantes and more than 200 vet¬ erans and their kyiiipathiieni con¬ tinued to iMitrol the strerU to Insure their hard earned victorv over the county political machine in ThurfMlay nlght'a haMIe that left 'iO uounded.
Brown D. Shearer, SO, of neigh¬ ing Ktow«h, WHS shot onee through each leg on a highu«y near his home town by an un- identifled member of the vigl- lantea.
Athens, Tenn., Aug. 3. (UP)— More than 300 GI's and other local citizens late today rushed the court house here for permits to carry weapons as a report spread that Sheriff Pat Mansfleld of MoMinn county was returning to claim hi.s office from whicii he was de¬ throned in Thursday night's rioting.
Men were lined up three deep registering for permit* and some were carrying ahotgun* and rifles while waiting in line. The local voluntary law enforcement com¬ mittee had ruled that ever.v one must obtain a permit to carry a weapon. Town Reatlesa
After a brief 24 hour* of peace- fulness, the little city again became restless with the threal that one of the political machine leaders would attempt to regain his office.
The Rev. Bernie Hampton, a straight-talking preacher who once wa* a "cop" himself, supervised the is&ue of permits to carry wea¬ pons. Tie took over the law en¬ forcement of the county today and with the co-operation of "sober men and right-thinking citizens" hoped to prevent a recurrence of Thurs¬ day night's bloodshed.
In the meantime, volunteer law enforcement representativea late today raided every establishment in the county having slot machinea. Thev seized machines and punch- boards and later amaahed thera against the iail. Accuse Sheriff
Money from the machine* wa* Impounded in the county vault un¬ til a aherlff waa InauUed. Hamp¬ ton aaid Manafleld allowed alot I machinea to operate In defiance of the law.
Hampton, elected with two others at a citizen*' mass meeting to serve on an extra-legal commission to preserve order, said today that the county waa quiet. Fiarrup Nearby
LasI night there had been a brief flareup at nearby Etowah, where a high-spirited group of sympa¬ thizers with the GI faction which bloodil.v seized control here wrecked the town's only police car, riddling It with bullets. No one was injured and the town waa quiet today
EHowah, like Alliens, had been without county police proiection since Thursday night when Sheriff Pat Mansfield of McMinn county and other officers vvent into hid¬ ing. Marufield atill could not be found toda.v. Defeated. Driven Away
Dr. Carey O. Force today at least three of the victims of Thursday night's eleciion rioting were still in seriou* condition at the hospital here.
J. H. Neal, an eleciion judge and member of the former en¬ trenched county organization, la the most seriously hurt, Dr. Force (Continued on A-12)
Evaff'Molotov Wrangle Highlights Peace Meeting
But Big: Four Satellites Uphold Russian On Chairmanship of Paris Conference; Two-Thirds Decision Put Over to Monday
By KDWARD W. BEAITIR
Pans. Aug. 3. (UP) — The Big Four today beat down a revolt by little powers against a rule giving the Big Five a monopoly on the cliairmanship of the peace conference after bitter debale including a charge by Australia's Herbert V. Kvatt thai Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov was trying to tum the conference Into a "rubber stamp."
Two days of wrangling over the chairmanship ended in a 12 to> 8 victory for the big powera. The rules commission thrn headed Into the major fight on its program —
Jeep Strikes Dallaa Girl
the row over the big powers' two-1 undermine Ihe "dignity and au- third* rule but a decision on that|tonomv of this conference." waa put over until Monday - or| Molotov opened up the squabble
I after Holland and New Zealand had withdrawn proposals to make
late
The atrength of the small pow¬ ers' fight, however, was expected to give them a compromise on the two-thirds vote issue. Both the United Slatca and Britain were un¬ derstood to favor modification of the Big Four recommendation that only conference proposala which receive a two-thirds vote be con¬ sidered by the council of ministers for the final treaty drafts.
The little powers, spear-headed bv Evatt, went down flghting but in the final showdown the Big Four stuck together on the issue with the support of aufficient »atellite* to put over their program. Cliarges Railroading
Tlie mosl spectacular firework*, however, were atarted by Evatt, who levelled hi* artillery against Molotov, charging the Russian rep¬ resentative with trying to make the conference "a rubber atamp" and charging Molotov with trying to
A seven-year-old Dallas girl re¬ ceived a probable fracture of the skull and other head injuries when struck by a jeep on the Dallas - Tunkhannock highway, near Kunkle, last evening.
Wanda, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Ernest Martin of RDl Dallas was hit on the bridge, about a mile above the route to Harvey's Lake.
Corp. Lynn Bohr of the State Police. Wyoming Barracks, identi- I fied the driver as Ray Calver. Nanticoke garageman, and said I the accident ^^•aa not his fault. ] Thc little girl was looking into ! the water with a neighborhood ; boy and darted across the high- 1 way just as the jeep arrived at i that point.
I Dr. A. J. Klem. chief rcaident at Nesbitt Hospital, said the girl had heen admitted for treatment at S:30 oclock. Calver wa* not held
French Foreign Bidault peri)tanent chairman of the conference. They pulled back on Bidault afler he made ll known he wouldn't take the chairmanship of the conference unless offered il unanimously—a prospect which obviously waa Im¬ possible due to the big power ob¬ jeclions.
In place of the Bidault , propo¬ sition the Dutch suggested that the delegates be allowed to elect any one of their 21 membera a* chairman. Brazil, Belgium and New Zealand aupported the new Dutch plan while Czechoslovakia opposed it and urged that the commission accept the Big Four plan and get on with its work. ¦LiHIe Power Revolt*
Molotov then rose and charged that the little powers were caus- (Contlnued on A-12)
JEWISH LEADER
OLDEST STRIKE OPEN WIDE AHACKiSISTS EFFORTS
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Tehran. -\ug. 3. (UP)— Premier .\hined Ghavam to* night Kharply criticized Bri* tain for ordering troops dis* patched from India to Basra, Iraq, just across the river from .\badan, Iran, center of di»«{in hances affecting the British-owned Anglo-Iranian oil concession.
An official Iranian state* ment sharply censured the action of the British who had announced the troops were be* jing sent .so they would b« I available if neces.sary to pro* jtect British interests in south jlran.
\Able to Handle Situation
The statement said tha ijrovernment of Iran was fully capalile of handling its own I internal affairs without in-
By HAITu'ES THOMPSON'
Paris, Aug. 3. (UP)—Moshe Sneh. .17-year-oId Jewish leader for whom' the British have sought unsucress-
fiiiiv in Palestine since the King'tcifeience from outside.
David Hotel bombing, turned up in: _, ¦ , ., . , ¦< ,
Paris today to attend the world Ghavam Said that while n«
exeeutive^ojnmittee^eeting of thejdesires good relations between ' Iran and the Big Three he will
ON REDS' BASES
By WALTER VOOAS
Nanking, China, Aug. 3. (UP)— Six Chinese nationalist armies have opened a concerted drive againat Communist basea In Shantung province following a bombing at¬ tack on the Communist capital at Yenan. Communist quartera here reported today.
Gen. Chou Rn-I>a!. Communist delegate, reported the new govern¬ ment offensive to Gen. George C. Marshall, President Truman'a peace envoy.
Six Armies Adarliing
Tlie Communist general said that the government's .Mst. 71at, ^9th, 98th, 28th and another army all had swung into action on a broad front northeast of Hsuchow. A two- pronged drive was under way to¬ ward Taierchuang, S7 milea north¬ east of Hsuchow. and Rngalen, 80 mile* northeast of Hsuchow.
Choi! aaid that the government said offensives, coupled with the bomb¬ ing of Yenan. had opened a new and broader phase of China'a civil war.
The Central new* agency re¬ ported on the other side of the picture that the Communists had opened widespread assaults In Kiangsu, Shantung and Honan (Continued on A-12)
AT SETTLEMENT
Milwaukee, Wla., Aug. 8. (UP»— Two of the longest strikes in the nation'a history dragged on today, almost forgotten by everyone but the strikers, the companies, the government, and farmera who need new machinery.
Jewish Agency for Palestine.
Sneh denied in an exclusive In¬ terview that he had been forced to go underground to escape Impris¬ onment In the great British round¬ up of suspected terrorists since more than 100 persons were killed in fhe hotel bombing. Just Another Traveller
He said he arrived In Pari* last night on his own Palestinian pass¬ port with a French visa after leav¬ ing Haifa 10 days ago—two days after the hotel bombjng—on the French
brook no interference with Iran's internal affairs.
rihavam's declaration was reminiscent of his equally sliai-p attacks on Russia dur¬ ing the period in which Irmo successfully fought to get Soviet troops withdrawn from north ei-n Iran. Reached IN Council
liner Andre Lebon. Thei
ship took him to Marseilles and hel (The Iranian - Russian diapute continued to Pari* by train, he «">" aired on several occasion* by said. the United Nations Security Coun*
Un mmiA h« ».-.„>i» n... i_ T.i •"". whIch Uicn Set a date for Av"v" a'nd'in'ot'herta'rtrof PaW-' ?""'«" withdrawal from th. little
tine, as well as Jerusalem, "on ,^1,^'„„„,.„ ^.,^„.,^ ,.,„„j ,.
T»...:.u &.-..»,.. k...i—...'t u... *u„» (The Russian delegate refused td
Jewish Agency business but that _,,,_j &._,,_!»,, /-¦„,,Jr..ii ....<.._• ••
Born in the postwar .trikewaveihe was not in Jerusalem at the I f„';,-''„«*,^J';^^^^^^^
report-
In plants throughout the| g^ph said he left Palestir* be-' from one fo three davs after the
cau.se he had been "invited" bv the i UN deadline, but failed to make «
last year, the two walkouts have Itime of the bombing of the King I^")/?, 'ThI]*R'u«it„^'w«r« lf!:"'"ff'":i^"r"'"?.»'.r"'" riuip-lDavld Holel July 22. le'^'^ut'^'f'.he'noThern "pr
idle
Jewish Agencv to attend the Paris meeting and he felt it "my duty" to come.
He turned aside all questions concerning British accusations by
Touchy Issues Will Face SOth Congress in January
Washington Aug. 3. (UP)—Prom-1 tore promiaed to push It hard next ises of some siiarp legislative bat-1 >¦*«¦¦.
tie, for the next Congres. rested | ^-f^i-Mj^tax and FEPC law. tonight in the "unfinished business j^nd Wayne L. Morse (R., Ore i files of the defunct 79th Congress.ipromised another round In their
Proponents of several measures' f'Kht for these measures. And the which vacation-minded lawmakers '""them representatives and Sen
She's Smart, Says 71-Year-Old About Shapely Bride-to-Be, 29
Bl Pa.o, Tex., Aug. 3. (UP) - John V. Apablasa. 71-ycar-old mil lionaire whose birth was the first recorded in Uie cily of Los An¬ geles, secured a marriage license today to wed Mrs. Julie Ann Grant, fchapely 2B-year-old divorcee.
Mrs. Grant, who gave her home as Milwaukee anu Los Angeles, secured a Mexican divorce yester¬ day across the Rio Urande from
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El Paso, at Juarez. She said the we<ldlng would be Mondav.
Thc dark-hatred Mrs. Grant said she met thc elderly Apablasa while working as an X-Ray technician in Los Angeles. He suffered a collar¬ bone fracture and 12 broken ribs in a Mexican auto crash, she said, and theif romance developed when he received treatment.
Apablnsa has three grown sons. His bride-tt>-be said he "work.s hard" at his various enterprises, which include mining, oil refining, real estate and soap factory inter¬ ests.
"He'a very ambitious." she smil¬ ed.
"She'a a bright woman." said! Apabla.vn. {
Apablasa ha. been married j twice. His fir.t wife died in IWIfi \ His second wife. Delia, divorced him five year* ago a.nd now lives in Mexico.
Mineola, N. Y., Aug. S. (UP) — Ward Beecher Caraway, 23-year- old Negro buller who haa confess¬ ed slaying Mrs. William John Logan, wife of a retired banker, in her palatial Norlh Shore home, claimed today he could nol re¬ member raping and shooting her daughter. Marjorie.
Caraway, held without bail on a first degree murder charge, wat; identified positively yesterday by Mi.'is Logan, 2t)-year-old fnrnir WAC, as Ihe man who raped and then shot her twice on the aftrr¬ noon of July 24 .after shooting her mother.
"There is no question about it," Miss Logan said.
BOMRINO IN SPAIN
Madrid. Spain. Aug. S. (UPl—A bomb exploded early today in a creamery located In the auhurb of Tetuan de las Victoria*, causing conalderable damage but no caaual- tie*.
sentenced to legislative limbo be fore adjourning yeslerday planned to revive them almnst as soon as lhe SOtli Congress opens for busi¬ ness in January.
Enough barbed comment punc¬ tuated the traditional "hearta and flowers " oratory of the closing con¬ gressional seasion to indicate that several controversial issues may be down but not out. .Merger on List
Some renresent major point* o' President Truman's battered 21- plank legislative program and oth¬ ers are measures which Republi¬ cana have fried vainly to push through the Democratic House and Senale.
The major "unfinished" issues:
1. -Armv-Navy merger Sen.
Lister Hill (D., Ala.), in a twelfth- hour speech accusing munitions makers and the Navy with block¬ ing merger approval in the 79th Congress left no doubt this would be tossed to the ROIh Congress in its infancv. Chairman David I. Walsh <D.; Mass.) of the naval af¬ faira committee, replied that the merger'* importance was "exag¬ gerated and distorted" He prom¬ ised to attack it again next year.
2.—Long-range housing — The house killed the President'* pro¬ posal for a l.rtOOOOO-house-a-year houaing program, but aeveral aena-
ators promised their usual opposi¬ tion. Including filibuster If neces¬ sary.
4- — Additional congressional streamlining legislation — Sen. Robert M. LaFollette (Prog.. Wis.) indicated that hia auccessful fight for congressional reorganization legislation was just a beginning. He wa* ready, if re-elected to the .Senate, to propose further stream¬ lining when the new Congress meets.
6.—Federal aid for education— Hill Is storing ammunition to push through a program to boost edu¬ cation levels for some 24,000.000 children and Sen. Robert A. Taft (R.. O.) wants limited aid to assure at least "minimum education" while preserving atate control over all phases of education. Only Two Ijibor Ijiwa
»>.—Labor legislation—Despite the postwar siege of labor-management strife and vigorous attempts to en¬ act labor legislation, only two labor bills were pa.ssed by tlie defunct Congress. A broad variety of pro¬ posals will be Inherited by the new Congress, including the pigeon holed congressional
ment
middle west and have made
about 20,400 workers.
The companies affected are Allis- Chalmers Manufactuinng Ot. and J I. Case Co. The unions involved are the CIO United Automobile Workers and the CIO United Farm Fquipment Workera. Both struck to support demanda for 30 per cent wage increase*. Huge I.rfKiM*ii
The two strikes have cost work¬ ers more than $20,000,000 In wages and have deprived the nation's farmers of thousands of unita of equipment needed to plant and harvest tlieir crops. ,.. , • . r. , .. «
The unions have remained firm ''^'',''"«." " "¦"""' '" Palestine from
in determination to carry the strikes [ "^^"'^
through to' their objectives. At
Rrit"h:?ortt;e''™re:?uru";'Cvi GOVERNOR tobin issues
will present to the union's execu¬ tive board n program for intensify¬ ing ths atrike and hastening its end.
Reuther came here this week fo confer with striking locals. He in¬ dicated that his strategy would in¬ clude joint action by the auto workers and the farm equipment workers.
At their International convention Ic'rk of Cambridge, this week, the Farm equipment
report, as requested by the UN, until weeks later. L.N Protest Llitrly
(It is presumed that entry of British troops Into Iran would
saying that he was not responsible; j^aw the same kind of protest to for information about his personal the UN as wa* occasioned by the activities given out by non-Jewish presence of Russian troops after
presence of Russian troops sources. j the date agreed upon by Rntlah.
He said he would stay in Earls | American and Russian govern- "about 10 davs" but that he v^-as | ments )
undecided whether he would re-j Qhavam issued order* that only turn immediatel.v to Palestine^ He, ong ^^^^ "authorized offleial .said It was his first visit to Paris i ^u,in„g.. ^.^^^^ he permitted t« since March. 1940, when he passed ; vi,it foreign emba.ssies in Tehran
! He said that persons who were in constant contact with foreign dip¬ lomats for purposes of "intrigttea'* would be swiftly punl.shed.
REWARD FOR SLAYER
workers voted their leadership au thority to take any st«ps necessary to bring the strike to a "success¬ ful conclusion." L. S. Try Falla
The government'* most recent settlement attempt was made in tlie Case walkout early tins week. Secretary of Labor l.«wis B Schwellenbach and Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson conferred with President Truman. |
Then they asked the coinpany and union lo join them In a con-; ference designed to break the( stalemate and renew negotiations.' broken off almost four montli- ; ago. The Invitation was accepted I by I.«wrence Carlstrom. interna-! tional representative of the UAW.
Caae President L. R. Clausen, however, declined on grounds that the conference would serve no pur¬ pose. He charged that the secre¬ tary of labor had interfered v^'ith resumption of negotiations by threatening government seizure of the company's plants.
Onset, Mass., Aug. 8 (UP)—Oov. Maurice J. Tobin, Massachusetts, was reported ready tonight to offer $1,000 reward for information lead¬ ing to the capture of the sex- slayer of litian-haired Ruth Mc- whose body was found in a pond near here Thursdav.
A secretary of Gov. Tobin said the governor would recommend the reward to his executive council when it meets Wednesday. The council must approve the reward which under Massachuaett* can not exceed $1,000.
BLAST IN HAIFA TANKER TAKES TOLL OF 25
Jerusalem, Palestine. Aug. S (UP) Twenty-five men are dead or miaa¬ ing from the unexplained exploaion last night of the 6.000-ton Britiah oil tanker F.mpire Cross In Haifa Bav it was announced officially to¬ night.
The tanker waa anchored at the Shell (Company's anchorage. The ship was burned out. Flame* alao razed a diving boat and launch alongside.
Early reports said the exploaion law jwas an accident An inveetigation was under way.
Arnall Orders Defense Of Talmadge Victory
THREE KILLED IN N. H. AUTO CRASH
lUP) 3-ycar-
Plymouth. N. H., Aug. 3 Three persons, including old girl, were killed instantly and another critically injured when their automobile went out of con¬ trol and plunged down an em- Investig^tion I bankment on route 3-A here Ui-
Into the basic cause, of labor dis- day, pute. and strikes. I Dead: Charles B. Stuart. 26. hii;
7.—Government health program I daughter Penney. 3, and his motb- —Prealdent Truman want* a broad er-ln-law. Mr*. Rhoda Brodey. r.i:. government program, but the Re- ail of Lynbrook. Long Island. N. Y. publicana propose to flght It In (Stuart'* wife, BSIaine, 24, was ho»- lavor of ona of their own. pitaUxed In critical condition.
Atlanta. Ga.. Aug. S (UP)-Gov Ellis Arnall, although he bitterly opposed Eugene Talmadge'. nomi¬ nation for a fourth terra, today ordered State Attorney General Eugene Cook to defend Georgia's county unil voting system by which the vigorous crusader for white supremacy was nominaied as thc slate's next governor.
The county unit system was threatenfcj yesterday in a suit filed in U. S. district court at Brunswick, seeking to have the obsolete pri¬ mary law declared unconstitutional in that it violates the 14th amend¬ ment of the U. S. constitution. Rival Uot More Votes
Talmadge was elected by this law, receiving a large majority of county unit votes primarily from rural counties. His opponent Janies V. Carmlchael, whom Arnall aupport¬ ed. received a plurality of the pop¬ ular vote that came from the urban counties
political friend, aa a deputy tant attorney general to aid the defense of the county system. Hearing Aug. IH
A hearing was set for Aug. on the suit thai wa. brought Mrs. Robert Lee Turman of Fulton county and Dr. Cullen B. (jo.nell, head of political science deport¬ ment al Emory Univeralty.
The auit pointed out that "in Fulton (Atlanta) county It requiroa 106 plus voters ... to have tho same value as one vote In Chatta- hoochie county." Echols county also has aome 3.000 people and two county unit vote, and Fulton county has about 500,000 with only alx unit votes.
The county unit .yatem ha. haan In effect in the state for at leaat SO years and haa t>een a stat* law since 1917.
In his threat to disfranchlM Negroe. from voting. T.tanadso promised to have the leglilaturo
1
With the sanction of Cook. Arnall 1 repeal the 1917 law hut inii*tMl announced that he was appointing (that the state Democratic commit- W. a Mann of McCrea. personal, tee retain the county unit mtw 'attorney of Talmadge and life-long a* a primary Uw.

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The Weather
Partly cloudy, warmer with scattered showers; Monday, warm and humid.
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1946
PRICE TEN CENTS
More Swords into Plowshares
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'Ex.¦f^\T raid slicllers that once I in Tottenham Borough. England. I council wliich is promotinK prac-
were the refuge for many Eng- These coops were displayed as tical wa.vs for icronversion. The
iishmen now make extra fine part of a "Farm WVek" pxhihi- material normally used for thia
chicken coops and cattle atalls | tion aponsored by the borough | is sent into home construction.
Po/fo Cases Pass Record '44 High; Parents Warned
Chicago, Aug. 3 (UP)—Physicians •nd health authorities today urged parents to take speuiHl precautions to protc.l their children from in¬ fantile paralysis aa the nation's worst poliom.velltis wave in 12 years approached epidemic propor¬ tions in many aeetions of the mid¬ dle west.
The public health aervice at Washington reported that 4.16" ca.ses had been tabulated in the United State* *o far during the cur¬ rent outbreak. This compared with S.OAO cases during the same period of 1944. E«r«DT.
Truman-Backed Hopeful Is Given SO-SO Chance
Kansaa Ctt.v, Mo., Aug. 3, fUP) — President Truman came home to¬ day to see how the first "purge" attempt by a President since 1938 was making out.
Wholesale resignations of elec¬ tion officials in the contested Fifth congressional district where the President was attempting hi)< purge posed a critical election problem.
The President was scokinR to eliminate Rep. Roger C. Slaughter, Democratic incumbent in the Fifth, but thc Pre.sident won't be ubie to vole in the primary on Tuesdny for his choice in the race. Kno.s A. Axtell, because the President's home, the summer While House, Is In the Fourth distriat.
Interest In the President's home¬ coming was high because of the Slaughter - Axtell . Walsh three- ringer race. .May Force Them to Serve
Inlerest of another kind appear¬ ed high. too. as Ludwick Graves, chairman of the election board, re¬ ported wholesale resignations of veteran pollinR place offlcials in the fare of an almo.st certain onslaught of challenging In the red-hot con¬ test.
"V\> may have to exerciae a right under the statutes to force many of Ihese ofiicials to aerve," Grave's ¦aid.
Ever since the President three]
week* ago entered the Fiflh dis¬ trict fight. It's been a hotbox of politics, with Axtell, 3fi-year-old former naval lieutenant, carrying the color* of the President. Jim Pendergast and the CIO-PAC.
The gamblers along 12th street reportedly were betting even on Axtell. v^'kh the odds up elsewhere to g-.") on Slaughter.
Jerome Walah, third candidate, was quoted at 3-1. Axtell's chances were enhanced because the resur- Kcnt Pendergast organization was goinn all-out not onl.v lo whip .Slaughter but to name both of Jackson county'a congressional nominees. Since the days of the IVndergust-.Shannon rapprochment vears ngo. Ihe Shannonitcs had one, Pendergasl llie olher. Will (irt Machine I^ad
Wilh tlic Pendergasl "boys" get¬ ting out the deliverable vole in the Norlh End iireiincts. tlie money boys wcie figuring Axtell would move out of that area with a siz¬ able lead.
The South Side di.-ttriuls are strongholds of Republicanism and it was tlieie Ihat Slaughter, though a Democrat, appeared tn be «t;ik- ing hia big luipe.s. Pendergast forces were readying a challenge campaign al the polls in an effort to keep GOP voters in their own bailiwick and thus shorten Slaugh¬ ter's chances.
OUTPUT Of AUTOS DELIBERATELY LOW
Accuses Big Three; Asks Sen. Mead To Investigate
Detroit, Aug. 3. (UP)—Walter P. Reuther, president of the CIO United Auto Workers, charged to night that leading auto makers were deliberately foatering a low production volume and called for a Mead Committee Investigation of
j the entire industry.
Reuther's challenge followed a joint labor-management conference sponsored by the union to discuss production problems. Most produ-
jcers refused to attend, with onlv
! Studebajier. Kaiser-Frazer and Wil-
, lys-Overland represented.
I Lile» Tax Kefunda
I The UAW leader hinted that tax
i refunds and monopoly controls wero responsible for "an Incentive to defer production."
The brunt of Reuther'* attack was directed toward the big three — Kord. Chrysler and General Mo¬ tors — who were accused of creat¬ ing a "myth" when they claimed that supplier strikes were the major reason for low automobile output.
Reuther said he had written to Senator Mead aaking for a "thor- ougli and complete investigation of of the reason for the industry's faiiure^to produce." Want I AW to End Strike
Industry spokesmen generally de¬ clined comment on Reuther'a de¬ mand. Their answer to lagging pro¬ duction charges earlier has been a 1 counter-demand that Reuther work Ifor an end of aupplier strikes, manv I of which were called by UAW affii- iate*.
Among the union charges recom¬ mended for committee Investigation were:
I 1. "The posaibility that high auto I prices encourage low volume pro¬ duction since such prices were aet b.v OPA for assuring normal profits while production is far below capa¬ city."
2. "Possible use of the tax law carr.v-back provisions as an in¬ centive to defer production from |194«. when tax refunds may be earned b.v not producing cars, to 1947 when proflts may be collected from customers ¦without sacriflce of tax refunds."
"General Motors. Ford. Chrysler and other producer* refu.sed to al-1 tend our conference because theyj knew public discussion would de-l stroy the mvlh they have attempt¬ ed to create holding suppliers' strikes to hlame for present low output of autos" Reuther declared.
"Their refusal to attend." he add¬ ed, "also arouses auspicion that there are other reasons -over and above material shortages—which they are afraid to submit to public slrutiny."
SS^NEW IRAN FLAREUP hbrMfiOVER BRITISH TROOPS
To Protect Oil Interest At Border
Town Grows Uneasy Over Report of Return; Bloodshed Is Feared; Machine Routed, Chased
Athens, Tenn., Aug. S. (IP)— Violence flared briefly here again tonight as one man waa ahot twice by a roving hand of \1gi- lantes and more than 200 vet¬ erans and their kyiiipathiieni con¬ tinued to iMitrol the strerU to Insure their hard earned victorv over the county political machine in ThurfMlay nlght'a haMIe that left 'iO uounded.
Brown D. Shearer, SO, of neigh¬ ing Ktow«h, WHS shot onee through each leg on a highu«y near his home town by an un- identifled member of the vigl- lantea.
Athens, Tenn., Aug. 3. (UP)— More than 300 GI's and other local citizens late today rushed the court house here for permits to carry weapons as a report spread that Sheriff Pat Mansfleld of MoMinn county was returning to claim hi.s office from whicii he was de¬ throned in Thursday night's rioting.
Men were lined up three deep registering for permit* and some were carrying ahotgun* and rifles while waiting in line. The local voluntary law enforcement com¬ mittee had ruled that ever.v one must obtain a permit to carry a weapon. Town Reatlesa
After a brief 24 hour* of peace- fulness, the little city again became restless with the threal that one of the political machine leaders would attempt to regain his office.
The Rev. Bernie Hampton, a straight-talking preacher who once wa* a "cop" himself, supervised the is&ue of permits to carry wea¬ pons. Tie took over the law en¬ forcement of the county today and with the co-operation of "sober men and right-thinking citizens" hoped to prevent a recurrence of Thurs¬ day night's bloodshed.
In the meantime, volunteer law enforcement representativea late today raided every establishment in the county having slot machinea. Thev seized machines and punch- boards and later amaahed thera against the iail. Accuse Sheriff
Money from the machine* wa* Impounded in the county vault un¬ til a aherlff waa InauUed. Hamp¬ ton aaid Manafleld allowed alot I machinea to operate In defiance of the law.
Hampton, elected with two others at a citizen*' mass meeting to serve on an extra-legal commission to preserve order, said today that the county waa quiet. Fiarrup Nearby
LasI night there had been a brief flareup at nearby Etowah, where a high-spirited group of sympa¬ thizers with the GI faction which bloodil.v seized control here wrecked the town's only police car, riddling It with bullets. No one was injured and the town waa quiet today
EHowah, like Alliens, had been without county police proiection since Thursday night when Sheriff Pat Mansfield of McMinn county and other officers vvent into hid¬ ing. Marufield atill could not be found toda.v. Defeated. Driven Away
Dr. Carey O. Force today at least three of the victims of Thursday night's eleciion rioting were still in seriou* condition at the hospital here.
J. H. Neal, an eleciion judge and member of the former en¬ trenched county organization, la the most seriously hurt, Dr. Force (Continued on A-12)
Evaff'Molotov Wrangle Highlights Peace Meeting
But Big: Four Satellites Uphold Russian On Chairmanship of Paris Conference; Two-Thirds Decision Put Over to Monday
By KDWARD W. BEAITIR
Pans. Aug. 3. (UP) — The Big Four today beat down a revolt by little powers against a rule giving the Big Five a monopoly on the cliairmanship of the peace conference after bitter debale including a charge by Australia's Herbert V. Kvatt thai Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov was trying to tum the conference Into a "rubber stamp."
Two days of wrangling over the chairmanship ended in a 12 to> 8 victory for the big powera. The rules commission thrn headed Into the major fight on its program —
Jeep Strikes Dallaa Girl
the row over the big powers' two-1 undermine Ihe "dignity and au- third* rule but a decision on that|tonomv of this conference." waa put over until Monday - or| Molotov opened up the squabble
I after Holland and New Zealand had withdrawn proposals to make
late
The atrength of the small pow¬ ers' fight, however, was expected to give them a compromise on the two-thirds vote issue. Both the United Slatca and Britain were un¬ derstood to favor modification of the Big Four recommendation that only conference proposala which receive a two-thirds vote be con¬ sidered by the council of ministers for the final treaty drafts.
The little powers, spear-headed bv Evatt, went down flghting but in the final showdown the Big Four stuck together on the issue with the support of aufficient »atellite* to put over their program. Cliarges Railroading
Tlie mosl spectacular firework*, however, were atarted by Evatt, who levelled hi* artillery against Molotov, charging the Russian rep¬ resentative with trying to make the conference "a rubber atamp" and charging Molotov with trying to
A seven-year-old Dallas girl re¬ ceived a probable fracture of the skull and other head injuries when struck by a jeep on the Dallas - Tunkhannock highway, near Kunkle, last evening.
Wanda, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Ernest Martin of RDl Dallas was hit on the bridge, about a mile above the route to Harvey's Lake.
Corp. Lynn Bohr of the State Police. Wyoming Barracks, identi- I fied the driver as Ray Calver. Nanticoke garageman, and said I the accident ^^•aa not his fault. ] Thc little girl was looking into ! the water with a neighborhood ; boy and darted across the high- 1 way just as the jeep arrived at i that point.
I Dr. A. J. Klem. chief rcaident at Nesbitt Hospital, said the girl had heen admitted for treatment at S:30 oclock. Calver wa* not held
French Foreign Bidault peri)tanent chairman of the conference. They pulled back on Bidault afler he made ll known he wouldn't take the chairmanship of the conference unless offered il unanimously—a prospect which obviously waa Im¬ possible due to the big power ob¬ jeclions.
In place of the Bidault , propo¬ sition the Dutch suggested that the delegates be allowed to elect any one of their 21 membera a* chairman. Brazil, Belgium and New Zealand aupported the new Dutch plan while Czechoslovakia opposed it and urged that the commission accept the Big Four plan and get on with its work. ¦LiHIe Power Revolt*
Molotov then rose and charged that the little powers were caus- (Contlnued on A-12)
JEWISH LEADER
OLDEST STRIKE OPEN WIDE AHACKiSISTS EFFORTS
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Tehran. -\ug. 3. (UP)— Premier .\hined Ghavam to* night Kharply criticized Bri* tain for ordering troops dis* patched from India to Basra, Iraq, just across the river from .\badan, Iran, center of di»«{in hances affecting the British-owned Anglo-Iranian oil concession.
An official Iranian state* ment sharply censured the action of the British who had announced the troops were be* jing sent .so they would b« I available if neces.sary to pro* jtect British interests in south jlran.
\Able to Handle Situation
The statement said tha ijrovernment of Iran was fully capalile of handling its own I internal affairs without in-
By HAITu'ES THOMPSON'
Paris, Aug. 3. (UP)—Moshe Sneh. .17-year-oId Jewish leader for whom' the British have sought unsucress-
fiiiiv in Palestine since the King'tcifeience from outside.
David Hotel bombing, turned up in: _, ¦ , ., . , ¦< ,
Paris today to attend the world Ghavam Said that while n«
exeeutive^ojnmittee^eeting of thejdesires good relations between ' Iran and the Big Three he will
ON REDS' BASES
By WALTER VOOAS
Nanking, China, Aug. 3. (UP)— Six Chinese nationalist armies have opened a concerted drive againat Communist basea In Shantung province following a bombing at¬ tack on the Communist capital at Yenan. Communist quartera here reported today.
Gen. Chou Rn-I>a!. Communist delegate, reported the new govern¬ ment offensive to Gen. George C. Marshall, President Truman'a peace envoy.
Six Armies Adarliing
Tlie Communist general said that the government's .Mst. 71at, ^9th, 98th, 28th and another army all had swung into action on a broad front northeast of Hsuchow. A two- pronged drive was under way to¬ ward Taierchuang, S7 milea north¬ east of Hsuchow. and Rngalen, 80 mile* northeast of Hsuchow.
Choi! aaid that the government said offensives, coupled with the bomb¬ ing of Yenan. had opened a new and broader phase of China'a civil war.
The Central new* agency re¬ ported on the other side of the picture that the Communists had opened widespread assaults In Kiangsu, Shantung and Honan (Continued on A-12)
AT SETTLEMENT
Milwaukee, Wla., Aug. 8. (UP»— Two of the longest strikes in the nation'a history dragged on today, almost forgotten by everyone but the strikers, the companies, the government, and farmera who need new machinery.
Jewish Agency for Palestine.
Sneh denied in an exclusive In¬ terview that he had been forced to go underground to escape Impris¬ onment In the great British round¬ up of suspected terrorists since more than 100 persons were killed in fhe hotel bombing. Just Another Traveller
He said he arrived In Pari* last night on his own Palestinian pass¬ port with a French visa after leav¬ ing Haifa 10 days ago—two days after the hotel bombjng—on the French
brook no interference with Iran's internal affairs.
rihavam's declaration was reminiscent of his equally sliai-p attacks on Russia dur¬ ing the period in which Irmo successfully fought to get Soviet troops withdrawn from north ei-n Iran. Reached IN Council
liner Andre Lebon. Thei
ship took him to Marseilles and hel (The Iranian - Russian diapute continued to Pari* by train, he «">" aired on several occasion* by said. the United Nations Security Coun*
Un mmiA h« ».-.„>i» n... i_ T.i •"". whIch Uicn Set a date for Av"v" a'nd'in'ot'herta'rtrof PaW-' ?""'«" withdrawal from th. little
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tie, for the next Congres. rested | ^-f^i-Mj^tax and FEPC law. tonight in the "unfinished business j^nd Wayne L. Morse (R., Ore i files of the defunct 79th Congress.ipromised another round In their
Proponents of several measures' f'Kht for these measures. And the which vacation-minded lawmakers '""them representatives and Sen
She's Smart, Says 71-Year-Old About Shapely Bride-to-Be, 29
Bl Pa.o, Tex., Aug. 3. (UP) - John V. Apablasa. 71-ycar-old mil lionaire whose birth was the first recorded in Uie cily of Los An¬ geles, secured a marriage license today to wed Mrs. Julie Ann Grant, fchapely 2B-year-old divorcee.
Mrs. Grant, who gave her home as Milwaukee anu Los Angeles, secured a Mexican divorce yester¬ day across the Rio Urande from
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El Paso, at Juarez. She said the we-be said he "work.s hard" at his various enterprises, which include mining, oil refining, real estate and soap factory inter¬ ests.
"He'a very ambitious." she smil¬ ed.
"She'a a bright woman." said! Apabla.vn. {
Apablasa ha. been married j twice. His fir.t wife died in IWIfi \ His second wife. Delia, divorced him five year* ago a.nd now lives in Mexico.
Mineola, N. Y., Aug. S. (UP) — Ward Beecher Caraway, 23-year- old Negro buller who haa confess¬ ed slaying Mrs. William John Logan, wife of a retired banker, in her palatial Norlh Shore home, claimed today he could nol re¬ member raping and shooting her daughter. Marjorie.
Caraway, held without bail on a first degree murder charge, wat; identified positively yesterday by Mi.'is Logan, 2t)-year-old fnrnir WAC, as Ihe man who raped and then shot her twice on the aftrr¬ noon of July 24 .after shooting her mother.
"There is no question about it," Miss Logan said.
BOMRINO IN SPAIN
Madrid. Spain. Aug. S. (UPl—A bomb exploded early today in a creamery located In the auhurb of Tetuan de las Victoria*, causing conalderable damage but no caaual- tie*.
sentenced to legislative limbo be fore adjourning yeslerday planned to revive them almnst as soon as lhe SOtli Congress opens for busi¬ ness in January.
Enough barbed comment punc¬ tuated the traditional "hearta and flowers " oratory of the closing con¬ gressional seasion to indicate that several controversial issues may be down but not out. .Merger on List
Some renresent major point* o' President Truman's battered 21- plank legislative program and oth¬ ers are measures which Republi¬ cana have fried vainly to push through the Democratic House and Senale.
The major "unfinished" issues:
1. -Armv-Navy merger Sen.
Lister Hill (D., Ala.), in a twelfth- hour speech accusing munitions makers and the Navy with block¬ ing merger approval in the 79th Congress left no doubt this would be tossed to the ROIh Congress in its infancv. Chairman David I. Walsh .—Labor legislation—Despite the postwar siege of labor-management strife and vigorous attempts to en¬ act labor legislation, only two labor bills were pa.ssed by tlie defunct Congress. A broad variety of pro¬ posals will be Inherited by the new Congress, including the pigeon holed congressional
ment
middle west and have made
about 20,400 workers.
The companies affected are Allis- Chalmers Manufactuinng Ot. and J I. Case Co. The unions involved are the CIO United Automobile Workers and the CIO United Farm Fquipment Workera. Both struck to support demanda for 30 per cent wage increase*. Huge I.rfKiM*ii
The two strikes have cost work¬ ers more than $20,000,000 In wages and have deprived the nation's farmers of thousands of unita of equipment needed to plant and harvest tlieir crops. ,.. , • . r. , .. «
The unions have remained firm ''^'',''"«." " "¦"""' '" Palestine from
in determination to carry the strikes [ "^^"'^
through to' their objectives. At
Rrit"h:?ortt;e''™re:?uru";'Cvi GOVERNOR tobin issues
will present to the union's execu¬ tive board n program for intensify¬ ing ths atrike and hastening its end.
Reuther came here this week fo confer with striking locals. He in¬ dicated that his strategy would in¬ clude joint action by the auto workers and the farm equipment workers.
At their International convention Ic'rk of Cambridge, this week, the Farm equipment
report, as requested by the UN, until weeks later. L.N Protest Llitrly
(It is presumed that entry of British troops Into Iran would
saying that he was not responsible; j^aw the same kind of protest to for information about his personal the UN as wa* occasioned by the activities given out by non-Jewish presence of Russian troops after
presence of Russian troops sources. j the date agreed upon by Rntlah.
He said he would stay in Earls | American and Russian govern- "about 10 davs" but that he v^-as | ments )
undecided whether he would re-j Qhavam issued order* that only turn immediatel.v to Palestine^ He, ong ^^^^ "authorized offleial .said It was his first visit to Paris i ^u,in„g.. ^.^^^^ he permitted t« since March. 1940, when he passed ; vi,it foreign emba.ssies in Tehran
! He said that persons who were in constant contact with foreign dip¬ lomats for purposes of "intrigttea'* would be swiftly punl.shed.
REWARD FOR SLAYER
workers voted their leadership au thority to take any st«ps necessary to bring the strike to a "success¬ ful conclusion." L. S. Try Falla
The government'* most recent settlement attempt was made in tlie Case walkout early tins week. Secretary of Labor l.«wis B Schwellenbach and Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson conferred with President Truman. |
Then they asked the coinpany and union lo join them In a con-; ference designed to break the( stalemate and renew negotiations.' broken off almost four montli- ; ago. The Invitation was accepted I by I.«wrence Carlstrom. interna-! tional representative of the UAW.
Caae President L. R. Clausen, however, declined on grounds that the conference would serve no pur¬ pose. He charged that the secre¬ tary of labor had interfered v^'ith resumption of negotiations by threatening government seizure of the company's plants.
Onset, Mass., Aug. 8 (UP)—Oov. Maurice J. Tobin, Massachusetts, was reported ready tonight to offer $1,000 reward for information lead¬ ing to the capture of the sex- slayer of litian-haired Ruth Mc- whose body was found in a pond near here Thursdav.
A secretary of Gov. Tobin said the governor would recommend the reward to his executive council when it meets Wednesday. The council must approve the reward which under Massachuaett* can not exceed $1,000.
BLAST IN HAIFA TANKER TAKES TOLL OF 25
Jerusalem, Palestine. Aug. S (UP) Twenty-five men are dead or miaa¬ ing from the unexplained exploaion last night of the 6.000-ton Britiah oil tanker F.mpire Cross In Haifa Bav it was announced officially to¬ night.
The tanker waa anchored at the Shell (Company's anchorage. The ship was burned out. Flame* alao razed a diving boat and launch alongside.
Early reports said the exploaion law jwas an accident An inveetigation was under way.
Arnall Orders Defense Of Talmadge Victory
THREE KILLED IN N. H. AUTO CRASH
lUP) 3-ycar-
Plymouth. N. H., Aug. 3 Three persons, including old girl, were killed instantly and another critically injured when their automobile went out of con¬ trol and plunged down an em- Investig^tion I bankment on route 3-A here Ui-
Into the basic cause, of labor dis- day, pute. and strikes. I Dead: Charles B. Stuart. 26. hii;
7.—Government health program I daughter Penney. 3, and his motb- —Prealdent Truman want* a broad er-ln-law. Mr*. Rhoda Brodey. r.i:. government program, but the Re- ail of Lynbrook. Long Island. N. Y. publicana propose to flght It In (Stuart'* wife, BSIaine, 24, was ho»- lavor of ona of their own. pitaUxed In critical condition.
Atlanta. Ga.. Aug. S (UP)-Gov Ellis Arnall, although he bitterly opposed Eugene Talmadge'. nomi¬ nation for a fourth terra, today ordered State Attorney General Eugene Cook to defend Georgia's county unil voting system by which the vigorous crusader for white supremacy was nominaied as thc slate's next governor.
The county unit system was threatenfcj yesterday in a suit filed in U. S. district court at Brunswick, seeking to have the obsolete pri¬ mary law declared unconstitutional in that it violates the 14th amend¬ ment of the U. S. constitution. Rival Uot More Votes
Talmadge was elected by this law, receiving a large majority of county unit votes primarily from rural counties. His opponent Janies V. Carmlchael, whom Arnall aupport¬ ed. received a plurality of the pop¬ ular vote that came from the urban counties
political friend, aa a deputy tant attorney general to aid the defense of the county system. Hearing Aug. IH
A hearing was set for Aug. on the suit thai wa. brought Mrs. Robert Lee Turman of Fulton county and Dr. Cullen B. (jo.nell, head of political science deport¬ ment al Emory Univeralty.
The auit pointed out that "in Fulton (Atlanta) county It requiroa 106 plus voters ... to have tho same value as one vote In Chatta- hoochie county." Echols county also has aome 3.000 people and two county unit vote, and Fulton county has about 500,000 with only alx unit votes.
The county unit .yatem ha. haan In effect in the state for at leaat SO years and haa t>een a stat* law since 1917.
In his threat to disfranchlM Negroe. from voting. T.tanadso promised to have the leglilaturo
1
With the sanction of Cook. Arnall 1 repeal the 1917 law hut inii*tMl announced that he was appointing (that the state Democratic commit- W. a Mann of McCrea. personal, tee retain the county unit mtw 'attorney of Talmadge and life-long a* a primary Uw.